Mtv Movie Awards, Edited Version

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Tcm's Reagan Fest

MTV still takes most of the blame for the year's major ``wardrobe malfunction'' that led to a major change in standards across the broadcast spectrum.

So when Eminem mooned the audience Saturday at the MTV Movie Awards 2004 (9 and 11:30 p.m.), the network had plenty of time to edit it before tonight's premiere.

Still, there is plenty of other titillation to go around, as when presenter Paris Hilton kisses Carmen Electra, winner of the ``Best Kiss'' category, for her three-way smooch with Owen Wilson and Amy Smart in ``Starsky & Hutch.''

Today is expected to have the least coverage of former President Reagan's funeral events this week, as networks plan to cut in only occasionally to his lying in state. Their regular news programs will also cover Reagan events.

It's a coincidence that the events of national import compete locally with state news of import: the House impeachment hearings of Gov. John G. Rowland.

CT-N continues to provide gavel-to-gavel coverage (even allowing the cameras to record an empty hearing room during the lunch break of the second day's session Wednesday). But radio stations that broadcast the opening sessions Tuesday are for now holding back on live coverage.

WTIC-AM (1080) was hampered by technical glitches as well as the introduction of lots of documents that didn't translate well on audio.

WNPR 's John Dankowsky says, ``Our plan for now is to periodically broadcast live as events demand.

``Tuesday's presentation was important for us to broadcast for historical reasons,'' he said, ``but was heavily weighted toward the visual. We felt as though the audio-only broadcast may have proved confusing to listeners not aided by video.''

Instead, WNPR will focus on summaries and analysis during its regularly scheduled broadcasts of ``All Things Considered'' and ``Morning Edition.''

Dankowsky also notes that it did provide several days of the 9/11 Commission hearing before pulling out, in part because it conflicted with a pledge period. The live stream continued at the station's website, which now connects with a live stream from CT-N, also streaming coverage at its website, best reached at www.ct-n.com.

No Bonzo

Reagan revisionism continues even in the selection of 15 films in a 24-hour retrospective of his movies on Turner Classic Movies today.

It starts with the former president's first starring role from 1937, ``Love Is in the Air'' (8 a.m.) and includes career high points such as the 1942 ``Kings Row'' (8 p.m.).

But it doesn't include his final role, as a crime boss in Don Siegel's 1964 remake of Ernest Hemingway's ``The Killers.'' Nor does it include perhaps his best known role, in the 1951 romp ``Bedtime for Bonzo,'' or even one that was less a target of ridicule, 1940's ``Knute Rockne -- All American,'' in which he plays Notre Dame halfback George Gipp.

We'll see neither the 1957 ``Hellcats of the Navy,'' in which he co-starred with second wife Nancy Davis, nor the related movies from 1938 and '39: ``Brother Rat'' and ``Brother Rat and a Baby,'' in which he starred with his first wife, Jane Wyman.

We won't see his musical ``She's Working Her Way Through College'' with Virginia Mayo, nor any of his four ``Brass'' Bancroft capers.